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Letter

Ottawa, 12 May 2008

File No.: 8740-G1-200712705

By e-mail

Mr. Claude Beauregard
Vice-President
Téléphone Guèvremont inc.
5025 Marquette Street
St-Hyacinthe, QC
J2R 2G7
reglementaire@maskatel.qc.ca 

Dear Mr. Beauregard:  

RE:Tariff Notice 52, 52A and 52B - Co-location service

On 7 September 2007, the Commission received an application by Téléphone Guèvremont inc. (TGI), under cover of Tariff Notice 52, in which the company proposed the introduction of Co-location service.  On 14 September 2007, and 18 December 2007, TGI filed amendments to its application under cover of tariff notices 52A and 52B respectively.

The Commission received comments from Sogetel Numérique and TGI's reply-comments.

In Telecom Order CRTC 2008-2, 9 January 2008, the Commission approved, on an interim basis, the application by TGI.  The Commission indicated that it would consider the issues raised in the application by TGI in its final decision. 

Staff notes that, with respect to TGI’s type A unbundled local loops, the Commission approved, on an interim basis, the use of the rate approved for Télébec, Société en commandite, in Rate Band F.  However, staff notes that, as of 1 January 2002, the subsidy per residential primary exchange service (PES) for small incumbent local exchange carriers (small ILECs) has been calculated in accordance with national weighted-average monthly residential PES cost based on the high-cost serving areas of the large ILECs for the cost component.

Commission staff is therefore of the opinion that the rate for TGI’s unbundled local loop should also be calculated based on the national weighted-average cost of unbundled local loops in Rate Band F for large ILECs, in compliance with the method for awarding the subsidy for residential PES.  The attached schedule provides the calculated rate for Rate Band F.

TGI has until 21 May 2008 to file its comments on the issue.

Sincerely,

Original signed by 

Suzanne Bédard
Senior Manager, Tariffs
Telecommunications 

Regulatory framework for the small incumbent telephone companies, Decision CRTC 2001-756, 14 December 2001

Attachment 

cc:  Alain Duhaime, Sogetel Numérique, alain.duhaime@sogetel.com
       Martin Brazeau, CRTC, martin.brazeau@crtc.gc.ca

 

 

Unbundled local loops - Type A

 

 

 

 

 

Rates adjusted for decisions 2001-238-1 and 2, 2001-848, 2002-12 and 2003-70

 

 

 

 

 

(Loop cost + 15%)

Band F

 

Bell Canada

$26.39

 

Island Tel (P.E.I.)

$29.13

 

MTT (Nova Scotia)

$23.22

 

MTS (MTS Allstream)

$24.68

 

NBTEL (New Brunswick)

$15.12

 

NEWTEL (Newfoundland and Labrador)

$25.30

 

TCI (Alberta)

$22.37

 

TCBC (British Columbia)

$35.77

 

SaskTel

$36.99

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average loop rate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Band F

a)

Loop rate - large ILECs

$26.33

b)

Loop cost - large ILECs (loop rate minus a 15% margin) [a / 1.15]

$22.89

 

 

 

c)

Increase for small ILECs (loop cost - large ILEC plus 7.5%)

$1.72

 

 

 

d)

Subtotal [b + c]

$24.61

 

 

 

e)

Margin (loop cost plus 25%) [d * 0.25]

$6.15

 

 

 

 

Loop rate - small ILECs [b + e]

$29.05

Date Modified: 2008-05-12

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